I call it: Fun With Archives. It’s something I do while waiting for someone to call and say, Go home. And why not share. Here are a few from Rick Bragg in the late 80s and early 90s.
Living in another world, Lesson linger from a lost war, All that matters is if you can play, Little women look back on a lost world, and, my favorite 176-word brief ever, Airborne clipboard knocks out glass eye: Patrick Malloy was walking home from work Wednesday night when a clipboard left on the bumper of a passing ambulance flew into the air, ricochetted off a railroad track and knocked out his glass eye.
Malloy, 42, of Bradenton, wasn’t badly hurt. But he can’t find his eye.
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